Kevin O'Connell on Vikings Win Over Packers, London Logistics & Sam Darnold's Accuracy

Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Kevin O'Connell addressed the media from the TCO Performance Center to discuss the win over the Green Bay Packers and looking ahead to the Week 5 game in London vs. the New York Jets.
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[@yajinvasion]

That hoodie still not in the shop, yo i got credit cards, cash and great credit score, take my money!!

[@Krawllll]

My wife has been waiting for the diamond stitched vest that Kwesi wears. Vikings, lets us support our team!

[@PATRIOT_Acronym69420]

The game day hat with the yellow rope on the bill isn’t either.

[@jstan7321]

We let up the 2nd half but when it mattered most we got the job done

[@trevorlee7945]

Great start but man that was closer than it needed to be SKOL !

[@fantasygurulegend]

I'm a big fan of yours KOC. I know you like to be deceptive and out smart the opposing coaches but sometimes you just have to line up and play smash mouth football even when they know it's coming.

[@chardaskie]

Think big. Act Small.

[@Sinistra359]

Ok coach.

[@ThomasB_N4G]

He was a quarterback, and Wes Phillips was a quarterback. Trenches isn’t in their vocabulary. That’s why Ty Chandler gets no touches.

[@emailaccount3355]

Too much east and west and not enough north and south and use the tush push with big QB

[@Schmittty23]

SKOL

[@peezy651]

Love the aggressive start of the game. But to let off the gas defensively and go to the cover 2 shell bcuz we have a lead is baffling!!! Great teams keep coming at you full force for 60 mins. Playing to win , not playing to not lose!!

[@ricovillanueva7822]

If we can play 4qtrs of football we'll be unstoppable SKOL!

[@AthletesFeats]

SKOL! 🙆🏾‍♂️🟣🟡

[@richardtheu4951]

Playing soft zone cover 2 leaving everyone wide open is playing not to lose. D Line can’t get there if we’re gonna let the ball come out quick. We have the players, great coaching puts players in a position to succeed. Don’t be afraid to blow them out. A good smack in the mouth hopefully woke them up. A win is a win but don’t self sabotage.

[@Pill-Cosby]

I hope KOC learned from this because whatever was done in the 2nd half I hate. We score 28 in the 1st half and then only score 3 all of a sudden? Way too conservative.

[@slumpt420]

​@Pill-Cosby yeah, especially with the packers capitalizing on pretty much everything that second half. Sure that interception should've been reviewed longer and nailors punt return didn't help either. But there's no reason that we should've let it get that close. I hope they learn from this one and don't let a 3 score lead blow into a one possession game in the 4th again.

[@Tom-ut6ky]

KOC, PLEASE get a killer instinct! Never let up! Crap like that game can kill oyur whole season.

[@TheSaint_02]

I'll believe in them when they put their foots on the necks of their opponents and end them. I was very impressed by 1st half on the road. Second half all on the HC! Very Mike Zimmer like.

[@isaiah5752]

You mean like stomping a good team 34-7? Shut up. I understand being mad at that 2nd half but that was a divisional game away and it wasn't our best play. We're not going to stomp every opponent and it's not always going to look pretty but we got the dub and it's time to fix some things relax.

[@JohnKan-uo7ne]

Aggressiveness is a must to maintain but it must be disguised by time consuming running plays when team ahead by three touchdowns.

[@FireLightning16]

Good 4-0 start but we can't let up like we did in the 2nd half.

[@aic5073]

Why did you let up then?

[@donXjuan]

imo it’s not that we let up more so that the Packers came to play in the 2nd half

[@aic5073]

​@donXjuan your on the team to?

[@richardtheu4951]

They let up

[@inkribbonz81]

@@aic5073you sound like a mad packers fan

[@FSMusicLTD]

Can't wait for London my first NFL game so excited

[@MrJAWhit75]

SKOL

[@azflyer3297]

IMHO. Pay Will R when the time comes. So nice to not have sweat out kicks.

[@GPMM2]

It's weird having a good kicker

[@nenasoriano5515]

he talked forever but never answered doogie's question

[@danielgilbert7265]

Glad I have the vikes to focus on since my mlb team sucks balls

[@lukespilde2917]

A win on the road is a win idc what it looks like

[@clintonreisig]

4-0 ! 💜💜💜💜💜

[@MNWILD43]

This young man is gonna win us a SB before I die! I'm 58 so I worry about it. lol

[@georgepotter5101]

I'm 70 how do you I feel 😅

[@Krawllll]

Coach, please, no more over head, hero ball, back pedaling, jazz hand punt returners, please. Love you guys! SKOL!

[@rudyb2755]

Safe travels, Vikings. SKOL 🙏 🙏 🙏 VIKINGS💜

[@rexrogers1859]

SKOL!!

[@MichaelDahmen-24]

The 14th Warrior; Samurai Darnold .. From, The North Dynasty!!!

[@mitchgonzalez3451]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 Hey SKOL FANS!!!! IT WAS A CLOSE GAME BECAUSE IS CALLED " ENTERTAINMENT NFL FOOTBALL 🏈 GAME FOR STREAMING AND FANS"🎉🎉 OTHERWISE VIKINGS WOULD'VE DESTROYED THE 🧀 UP 😅😅😅

[@toddsattler8002]

This guy has some of the most honest, erudite press conferences I've seen. We are lucky to have KOC

[@JohnKan-uo7ne]

Sam’s success most of the time were deep drop rather than shallow drp back. Why?

[@SaintsCheat]

If we can relay the call to Sammy D before 20 seconds, it may help with the delay of games and stress those prob cause 😅

[@davebarnes6672]

I’m seeing coaching deficiencies, too many pass plays on third and one. Also, not throwing the red flag on an interception late in the game that was obviously out of bounds. The games are 60 minutes, you can’t lose your intensity. We have some work to do to get better.

[@craigdragseth9272]

Did we have a challenge left? I think we used all of our challenges throughout the game.

[@isaiah5752]

We used all our challenges becuz the refs suck cock.

[@adamstone3318]

I’ll be there (north stand) next Sunday let’s get to the bye 5-0 boys SKOL

[@GabrielChavez-g6e]

FIX THE DEFENSE ON THOSE HURRYUP PLAYS ALMOST LOST THAT GAME,AND USE UP CLOCK INSTEAD THROWING BALL RUN,RUN,RUN.ROGERS GOING TO DO THE THE HURRYUP OFFENSIVE LETS BE BETTER THIS WEEK LETTS GO VIKINGS IT'S OUR TIME

[@deebee5196]

This coach is the game changer! Players respect the hell out of him! Keep up the good work

[@Drew-oq6eq]

Vikings kindly reframe from giving your diehard fans hypertension!

[@franklinshriver8441]

Reframe? Okayyy..i think you meant Refrain...but we can also reframe too!

[@daviddidder3781]

STOP chasing points KOC!! Onside recover and FG for the win is a whole lot different than onside recover and TD for the win!! 🤯🤯 #yougotlucky

[@mattwilcox1884]

Wtf are you talking about, are you saying to not go for it at your own 4? Or not kick the FG with 7 mins left? Cuz either choice is a dumb one.. not to mention you go for the win and onside kicks are like 10 percent recovered. If we kicked the FG went up by 5 and lost by 1 with a packers TD then everyone would say Vikings are to safe and people would bitch about the play calling..

[@joeypesek3936]

It honestly seems like the Packers just stepped up, which is going to happen eventually. The problem is we didn’t have a response

[@daviddidder3781]

Are you slow or just a Democrat? 😂. ALWAYS kick the FG until you HAVE to go for it! Then compound poor decision by giving the ball to left eye Nailor, who doesn’t put the correct kleats on for the game?!

[@franklinshriver8441]

There will be times ya gotta go for it on 4th, so its at least, good practice..but yes, thankfully we won.

[@bradhagen5060]

⁠@@mattwilcox1884 I was OK with him going for it for all the reasons stated team trust, long field for GB up two scores BUT I think kicking it made a lot of sense. Green Bay to score two TD to win much harder to achieve if they had a quick TD (which they did) and then to get in FG range is way easier than scoring a second TD. It was not a bad take by Daviddidder3781. Either way the outcome was always going to favor the Vikings.

[@kaylabautch6490]

Our offence won this game.

[@alcorsetti2534]

JUST WIN BABY !!!!👌👌👌👌 and 0

[@rexrogers1859]

Vikings won!! SKOL!!

[@paulnelson7525]

Should be 5-0 after next Sunday. The Jets are not very good.

[@GPMM2]

Don't jinx it

[@franklinshriver8441]

Oh they can be good..never overlook it..the most important game of the year is the one youre playing. If they play as they can, and lose, then they need to re-assess..but yeah, they should win playing confidently.

[@alta58043]

Keep Nailor out of special teams. Looked clueless back there.

[@voltronmoreno7394]

So would you if sun was in your eyes😂😂

[@tanachum7930]

lol it was windy and sun in his eyes, what you expect 😂 go do special team yourself 🤣

[@franklinshriver8441]

Anyone can flub it at any time, Nailor knows what to do.

[@JosephGunderson-v5h]

@fantasygurulegend I’m glad your a guru at fantasy. maybe you should stick to fantasy and let koc be the coach of an actual football team.

[@beanniebaby4456]

Well what happened to the defense? They allowed them to come back and almost win the game!!!! Gotta do better on defense guys! I’m proud of The Mighty Vikings! Go Vikes!!!

[@evans.1448]

Green Bay never had the ball with a chance to take the lead. Overreaction from garbage time comeback. Nothing to see here.

[@tbaskerville3390]

Exactly! Playing prevent while getting bad calls from the refs let the score be closer than what it really was. I admit flores should've changed up coverage a bit when they were gouging us. But we were still in control ​@@evans.1448

[@swanksthetiger1169]

Chill. They secured the W with multiple turnovers.

[@alberta5771]

They’ve been down for three minutes total since the start of the season. stfu.

[@That85Scorpio]

They were tired after the momentum shift and having to stay on the field with no rest. The questionable INT near the EndZone and a muffed punt made this look like more a game than it was

[@kevinford4429]

Is J.A going to be suspended soon?

[@joeypesek3936]

When your opponent has 4 turnovers and their kicker misses 2 field goals and you only win by 2 points, that’s not just a couple bad plays. If they had 1 less turnover or if their kicker could make a field goal we would have had the biggest blown lead in franchise history. It’s crazy to say we were lucky to win that game. What surprised me most is the lack of adjustments on defense. If that was a boxing match, we won the first 6 rounds, but then they hit us with a bomb in the 7th and we became a punching bag! It seemed like we couldn’t stop the bleeding. I saw someone say treat every offensive drive like the score is 0-0, especially when you’re up so much. I think there’s some truth to that. Let’s just not give up 22 unanswered points again because if we do that again we probably aren’t gonna win the game

[@VStrizzy]

The problem with rewriting the past is that if anything had gone differently, everything after that would be played differently. And what if the refs didn’t gift them the INT or the spot on the 4th and 1

[@joeypesek3936]

@@VStrizzy I get what you’re saying. That is true. It was just a weird game overall

[@MP-ik3pt]

Still won

[@nificent6241]

We got exposed on defense cuz we scored the entire ganeplan in the first half 😆 🤣 😂 both coaches are to blame. Stop with the prevent defense 😆 we almost lost

[@davidb9531]

The fact is when we needed a drive Darnold just put the foot down, we destroyed a good team for 30, chill yourself a wee bit

[@truthistruth2928]

Why KOC, would you throw on 3rd and a half yard with 1 min left in first half and a 28 point lead?? Why would you throw on 2nd and one with a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter? Why play prevent defense when you held them to 0 points??? why why why